Cathe Live Review: 80’s Style Cardio w Low Impact Blasts (#54)
80’s Style Cardio w Low Impact Blasts is a fun pure cardio workout. This is old school hi-lo type cardio with blasts sprinkled in between the combos.
The workout consists of six cardio sections. Each section has a combination of 80’s style cardio moves (think leg warmers & headbands!) that are repeated a few times and then followed by one or more low impact blasts. Most of these combos are then repeated starting on the other side.
The combos are all fairly straight forward moves so it’s not really complex choreography but it is definitely a bit more dancey than usual. Also there are quite a few moves that have different arm patterns and some of these may be a little confusing the first time through. However, if you have done any of Cathe’s other old school cardio workouts these will all be familiar. This reminded me of the hi-lo sections in Cathe’s other DVD’s - Cross Train Xpress and Maximum Intensity Cardio. I really enjoyed this workout – it was a nice flashback to the 80’s and the music was good too! However, the sound quality, for this video, seemed really poor and the volume changes throughout, along with reverb from the speakers.
The blasts are just one move repeated for a set number of reps. However, they not always entirely low impact as Cathe does jump a few but you can always just decide to stay fully low impact or make it higher impact instead – which is what I did. This is definitely not a really intense workout but just gave me a nice way to get my body moving without going all out. Also Cathe gives you more water breaks than usual - as you have a break after every combo. I just jogged during these to try to keep my heart rate a little higher.
One thing to note, is that there is a lot of hopping on the toes – pretty much the whole workout - so if your feet, calves etc are sensitive to this – this may not be the best choice for you or if so you can always just keep it fully low impact.
Overall, this was a more intermediate cardio routine that will get you moving and having a lot of fun along the way. You can easily modify this to higher or lower impact as you choose.
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The Workout
80’s Style Cardio w Low Impact Blasts is a pure cardio workout consisting of six combos and a few low impact blasts.
What You Need to Know
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The Moves
80’s Style Cardio w Low Impact Blasts is 47 minutes long and originally aired on 4th June 2015 (#54). The workout starts with an 8:30 minute warm-up before moving into the first hi-lo cardio combo. Most of the moves are repeated for several sets and include different arm patterns etc. The main moves are shown below.
Combo 1
Shuffles with arm circles
Tap outs
Tap backs
Low Impact Blast: Long reach lunges (with different arm variations)
Quick water break & repeat on other side
Quick water break at 15:15 minutes
Combo 2
2 Heels (hopping)
Heel, toe, heel
Heels & jacks
3 Leaps & 1 jack
4 Leaps & 4 jacks
Side steps
Low Impact Blast: Windmills
Jump ropes & repeat on other side
Quick water break at 21:16 minutes
Combo 3
Heels together
Twist travel / wrap it up (jump forward & back – wrapping the arms)
Pony
Pony forward & back / single hip to hip back
Low Impact Blast: Lean back & volley forward
Jump ropes & repeat on other side
Quick water break at 27:30 minutes
Combo 4
Heels forward (low impact)
Heels together (hopping)
Low kicks moving forward / kick side to side / back kicks moving back / kick side to side
Add 4 jacks instead of 2nd kick side to side
Angled scissors / jacks
Low Impact Blast: Pivoting apple pickers
Quick water break at 31:25 minutes
Combo 5
Heel together
Heels side to side (hopping)
4 Heels
Heels with arm swings
Alternating knees up
2 Knee curls
Up & over
Up & back
Repeat above from 4 Heels
Elbow to knee (hopping)
Straight leg kicks (hopping)
Insoles
Straight leg kicks
Knees up
Up & over
Up & back
Low Impact Blast: Icebreakers
Quick water break at 36:15 minutes
Combo 6
Double hops
Jogs (chest press & over / under arms)
Soldier kicks (low back kicks – hopping)
Jog / high jog
Squat digs
Jabs to the side (shuffling)
Low Impact Blast: Hi-Lo punches
Repeat on other side
The workout ends with a 4 minute cool down and stretch.
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